The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)

Rating:**Cast: Geena Davis, Samuel L. Jackson

Once again Hollywood takes a stab at the "girls with guns" genre and
fails to hit the mark. Geena Davis is a government operative who has lost her
memory and now lives comfortably and quietly in a small town with her husband
and daughter. A car accident starts bringing back those memories and she comes
to the attention of some of the people she used to work for, who are doing bad
things and want her out of the picture. She hooks up with low-rent P.I. Samuel
L. Jackson to find out who she really is, and together they scamper around
trying to stay alive and finally take the initiative to take out the bad guys.
Although she does a respectable job, I don't like Geena Davis, and the material
she has to work with is pretty poor.
Uninspired action sequences and irritating macho moments don't help, and the
treatment of Davis's character is just annoying. Hollywood filmmakers seem
compelled to soften tough chick roles with stupid feminine fluff and berating
chauvinistic dialog. Even though she's a ruthless and highly effective trained
killer, she's also a loving and caring mother and housewife, and gets treated
as such by everyone else in the film. Sorry, I'm not buying that.